Monday, 14 March 2011

THE BROONS...BANNED! "JINGS, CRIVVENS, HELP MA BOAB!"

Here is The BROONS strip that was "banned" and never
saw print until its appearance in The SUNDAY POST, March13th, 2011 - around 75 years after it was first created.

It's thought that it was vetoed because the word "lover" in the
second panel was considered far too racy for a kids' strip in a family
newspaper in 1936. Morris Heggie, comics expert and the current
writer of The BROONS and Oor WULLIE, thinks that not only isit one of the earliest Broons strips in existence, but may even bethe first one that artist DUDLEY D. WATKINS ever drew -the 'pilot' episode, in effect.

The Broons (The Browns) and Oor Wullie (OurWilliam)
celebrated their 75th anniversary in yesterday's Sunday Post,
with a special pull-out souvenir section devoted to Scotland'slovable and long-running comic characters.

Created by Robert Duncan Low (Managing Editor ofD.C. THOMSON's children's publications) and Dudley DexterWatkins, both comic strips first appeared in The Sunday PostFUN SECTION on March 8th, 1936. For many years Dudley wasthe only DCT artist allowed to sign his work, such was the esteem inwhich his employers held him. The policy of other artists' enforcedanonymity was only relaxed long after Dudley's death in 1969.

Original Broons & Oor Wullie artist, Dudley D. Watkins

For those that missed it, back issues of the newspaper are
no doubt available from D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. Get onthe trail of that collectors' item classic while you can. The Broonsand Oor Wullie books continue to appear on alternate years on therun-up to Christmas, and a special hardback book reprinting classicepisodes of both strips as drawn by Dudley D. Watkins ispublished every year, and has been since 1996.

Above, the first appearance of Oor Wullie and The
Broons, and below, for completists, the covers of the veryfirst Broons and Oor Wullie books.

STUDIO 77

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

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